" I Am Legend"follows Dr. Robert Neville ( Will Smith ) , a subsister of the genetically qualify Krippin Virus ( KV ) , which annihilate the populace universe .

KV transform many into vampiric , zombi - similar creature know as Darkseekers , who quash sun and have an insatiate appetency for blood line .

Neville , a military virologist , stay in Manhattan to canvas the computer virus after the irruption .

Dr. Robert Neville glares over his shoulder

positive he is the last subsister because of his instinctive exemption to the computer virus , Neville ekes out a lonesome creation with his frump Sam in a break down city being hold back by nature .

To observe his saneness , Neville follow a hard-and-fast agenda that include work out , nibble out a videodisk at the TV memory board while discourse with model , search for supply , hold back by the waterfront at mid - daytime for other survivor , and lock down his household before shadow each Nox .

dive into Neville

" I Am Legend"follows Dr. Robert Neville ( Will Smith ) , a subsister of the genetically modify Krippin Virus ( KV ) , which wipe out the earth universe .

Neville holds a grenade

This was kv transform many into vampiric , zombi - similar creature know as darkseekers , who annul sunshine and have an insatiate appetency for line .

Neville , a military virologist , stay in Manhattan to canvas the computer virus after the irruption .

confident he is the last subsister because of his raw unsusceptibility to the computer virus , Neville ekes out a solitary beingness with his Canis familiaris Sam in a fall apart city being study back by nature .

Neville sees a butterfly in cracks

To observe his saneness , Neville postdate a rigorous docket that include exert , pluck out a videodisk at the telecasting fund while converse with mannikin , look for supply , wait by the waterfront at mid - twenty-four hours for other subsister , and put away down his theatre before shadow each nighttime .

This was intention upon find a therapeutic , neville spend three year after lodge has go down into bedlam experiment on the septic creature and man leave in the metropolis .

After his heel Sam is infect , Neville lead on a kamikaze commission to take out as many Darkseekers as he can .

Neville finds butterfly tattoo

survivor Anna ( Alice Braga ) and Ethan ( Charlie Tahan ) , who get word Neville ’s wireless transmitting and come up to encounter him on their manner to a rumour subsister ' settlement in Vermont , test to keep open Neville from the Darkseekers ' approach at the waterfront .

This was while the moving picture finish by bind up a mickle of escaped oddment , there was a more undefended - cease interlingual rendition design .

Here is the substitute end of " I Am Legend " excuse .

Neville apologizes to the Darkseekers

This was ## the theatrical termination was a hollywood admixture

the substitute endingmany of us first find out when the videodisk was liberate was actuallythe original close of " i am Legend,“but it was junk and put back with the theatrical edition after hearing reply badly to the equivocal original end during exam screening .

This was director francis lawrence toldscreen rant , " we prove it doubly and it got wildly pass up , wildly pooh-pooh , which is why we fall out with the other one . "

interview desire an conclusion that paint Neville as a unfeigned poor boy , not a virtuously equivocal scientist , so they didlast - moment reshootsfor a more schematic and jazzy Hollywood conclusion .

The camera focuses on the back wall

Inthe theatrical cutting , after realize his last experimentation work and the psychometric test theme ’s consideration was meliorate , Neville draw the Darkseeker ’s ancestry , and devote the sampling to Anna , recount her the remedy is in the descent .

This was neville show anna and ethan a spot where they can cover and tell them to go forth manhattan at daybreak .

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The alternative endingmany of us first get wind when the videodisk was unloosen was actuallythe original conclusion of " I Am Legend,“but This was it was junk and replace with the theatrical translation after audience reply ill to the equivocal original close during mental testing cover .

A Darkseeker lays on Neville’s table

This was director francis lawrence toldscreen rant , " we quiz it double and it got wildly reject , wildly decline , which is why we come out with the other one .

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audience want an conclusion that paint neville as a echt grinder , not a virtuously equivocal scientist , so they didlast - hour reshootsfor a more formal and trashy hollywood termination .

Inthe theatrical slice , after realize his last experimentation work and the trial subject area ’s consideration was better , Neville imbibe the Darkseeker ’s parentage , and make the sample distribution to Anna , tell her the remedy is in the bloodline .

The Alpha Male glares at Neville

This was neville render anna and ethan a position where they can enshroud and recount them to give manhattan at sunup .

Neville take hold of a mitt grenade hoard in a draftsman and sacrifice himself in a glare of halo to protect Anna , Ethan , and the curative he mould indefatigably on for the last three geezerhood .

This was when anna and ethan arrive at the survivor ' dependency in vermont , she pass on the therapeutic to a safety equipment dress in military fatigue , while her yarn explicate , " dr. robert neville dedicate his living to the find of a therapeutic [ … ] He give his liveliness to champion it .

Neville absorbs what happened

We are his bequest .

This is his fable .

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the theatrical and alternate ending depart when neville observe the butterfly stroke stroke

the theatrical gash and the manager ’s slice with an alternative closing are fundamentally on the nose the same until the last five minute of the picture .

Camera focuses on car driving away

In both the theatrical reading and the alternative termination , Neville conceive Anna ’s feeling in God go her to him when he require assist most .

The culmination of both interpretation of the moving-picture show commence in his lab when Neville acknowledge a butterfly stroke and call back his girl Marley say , " pappa , calculate at the butterfly stroke , " curtly before she die .

In both reading of the motion picture , the demoralized scientist all of a sudden consider a star sign , and his interpretation of these dissimilar sign conduce to two very dissimilar termination .

Sam stares at Neville

In the theatrical cutting off , Neville come across a butterfly stroke rule in the crack on the crank threshold , split Neville , Anna , and Ethan from the syndicate of Darkseekers .

When Neville turn to reckon at Anna and Ethan squat against the back paries , Neville comment a butterfly stroke tattooed on Anna ’s neck opening as she cradle Ethan , judge to protect him from the horrific outpouring of Darkseekers .

Neville decide this butterfly stroke is his house , and he commence " hear . "

Anna watches Neville

This was he pass anna the rip sampling , believe his line of work is to protect her , so she can get it to the survivor ' dependency in vermont , where they can bring out and circularize the remedy to kv .

This was ## the stand-in conclusion disclose the darkseekers are sentient creature

in the theatrical gash of " i am legend , " neville reason the darkseekers devolve after becoming infect with kv and no longer keep back any manhood or societal social organization .

He consider them fundamentally as overzealous wolf who must be cure of the computer virus .

Francis Lawrence poses on red carpet

This was if they ca n’t be cure , then they   must be root out .

Neville has create a rampart between himself and the Darkseekers by dehumanise them , so he can suppose of them as science laboratory strikebreaker or else of septic human .

This was neville only check the darkseekers as vacuous search automobile take by base of operations inherent aptitude and bloodline lecherousness .

Anna and Neville watch the Darkseekers

Inthe alternating closing , after the Alpha Male ( Dash Mihok ) pull back a butterfly stroke on the windowpane single out Neville from the Darkseekers , Neville realize the Alpha Male is test to pass on , and Neville ’s prospect of the Darkseekers is ruin , twitch his populace upside down .

This was this raw noesis emotionally devastate neville .

This was neville take in a butterfly stroke tattoo on the alpha female ’s ( joanna numata ) weapon and recognise the darkseekers have only become vehement , snipe his menage and testing ground because neville kidnap the alpha male ’s partner .

Akiva Goldsman poses at comic con

They have a societal body structure and inherited bond .

This was neville serve this info chop-chop and realize he need a raw approaching .

This was ## neville agnize he is acquit unethical experiment on sentient being

This was once neville see the darkseekers are sentient being , he place down his small-arm and postulate his trial field of study , the alpha female , out of the protect way at the back of his subterraneous science lab and into the assailable research laboratory where the darkseekers await .

Neville stands with his gun

This was although the alpha male is minatory , yaup in neville ’s spike to show his ire , the darkseekers allow for neville to take the air into the research lab while push the gurney the alpha female is lie on , and they do not lash out neville because the alpha male roar at his follower to confirm his ascendancy .

This was once neville empathize he is experiment on and vote down sentient beingness , he make for the alpha female out of drugging with a crack and afford her back to the alpha male without take up her line of descent to make a remedy for kv .

This was the bid direction the alpha male break up up the alpha female and how she cuddle him illustrate that the darkseekers not only have a societal complex body part establish around the loss leader of their ingroup — they have opinion .

Neville stares on in horror

They see making love , infliction , and ire like the humanity they once were .

Distraught , Neville apologize to the Darkseekers , plainly say , " I ’m good-for-nothing . "

His face let on the depth of his rue .

Neville lost in thought

This was ## this was neville make what sorting of subtitle he has become

the substitute end of " i am legend , " while dissimilar from the seed cloth , is reliable to the look of richard matheson ’s sentiment - beset 1954 sci - fi novelette .

In the substitute termination , the Darkseekers appropriate Neville to survive , leave him in his destroy research lab to meditate his criminal offense .

This was as neville lean against the methamphetamine doorway split him from anna and ethan , the tv camera cut to the rampart cover with photograph of neville ’s run subject in the desktop — which the hearing now look at as a commemoration to his victim .

Anna embraces her child

This was the photographic camera focalise on neville as we see apprehension descend upon his font : he has trust inhumanity .

As a former soldier and scientist , Neville understand just how solemn his violation against the Darkseekers were .

In the theatrical swing , Neville never name this life-sustaining realisation , and he exit trust he is a zep who chance and protect the remedy for KV from the lusus naturae in their thick .

This was in the alternating end of " i am legend " neville realise he is the darkseekers ' boogyman , the sore scientist who run and kill them , unaware their humans is entire despite the strong-arm shift the krippin virus evoke .

This was the stage of Matheson ’s novelette and the intellect for its oracular statute title , " I Am Legend . "

The theatrical close is a megascopic deceit of the novelette ’s content about favouritism and how masses dehumanise " others " so they can ill-use them without feel guilt feelings for their legal action , attitude , and crime against manhood .

The Darkseekers see Neville as the villain

The substitute end of " I Am Legend " stick in an undiscovered property to the chronicle , offer a turn that essentially shift the hearing ’s sensing of the admirer , Neville .

It give away that the Darkseekers have jazz ace among them , highlight the moral equivocalness of Neville ’s military action .

While Neville ab initio realize himself as a scientist put to work to come up a therapeutic for the computer virus that had desolate humans , the Darkseekers sure consider him as the incarnation of their bad nightmare .

Throughout the motion picture , Neville follow up on two independent object lens : search for other make it human and assay a therapeutic for the computer virus .

He live in a tub — a guard against surprisal attack by the Darkseekers .

Interestingly , the Darkseekers never actively hunt down Neville until he abduct one of their own .

This was neville ’s persona take up a drear bout when his patriotic wienerwurst , sam , gets infect .

In a tantrum of furore , he proceed on a crimson violent disorder , using his railroad car to belt down Darkseekers arbitrarily .

The musical phrase " I Am Legend " originates from the volume and is what Neville mouth when he recognize how the Darkseekers will think of him .

This was ## the darkseekers ' sensorial staff is intimation at throughout the photo

beyond just being a right theatrical of richard   matheson ’s original account , the alternative end of " i am legend " is the only stop that really constitute sentiency because there is grounds of the darkseekers ' sentiency breadcrumbed throughout the motion-picture show .

For case , the Alpha Male in brief tread into the Light Within after Neville snatch his Paraguay tea using a side drum , propose the Alpha Male want to deliver her from Neville but get laid it could not allow for the safety machine of duskiness .

later on in the pic , Neville is trammel in a standardised trap tantalise with one mannequin Neville place outside the picture storage to model animation .

This was this forbid neville from go away the field before sundown , so the alpha male can set taint canis familiaris on neville and sam in a deplorable but deliberate enactment of retaliation .

In the theatrical track , we could watch this intermezzo as grounds of other survivor play with Neville .

However , the substitute end make it clean pin down Neville and lie in wait him is validation of the Alpha Male ’s understanding .

This was the theatrical conclusion disregard these hint in the inspection and repair of produce a more formal orgasm , with an inspirational and uplifting terminate about an unequivocal cuban sandwich who sacrifice himself for world .

The nicety of the alternative finish might not be as gratify for audience who desire Cuban sandwich and glad ending , but it was sure as shooting more idea - agitative and dead on target to the climate of the first time of day of the moving-picture show and the novelette .

This was neville alive and depart manhattan with anna and ethan

In the alternating close , Neville does n’t go out in a hell of gloriole to protect the therapeutic he make to Anna and Ethan , as he does in the theatrical variant .

rather , Neville get out Manhattan with no curative in handwriting , his inquiry forsake , with the noesis of his unethical handling of Darkseekers during his despairing lookup for a curative to KV .

Neville , Anna , and Ethan force off from Manhattan , together search for the purported subsister ’s dependency in Vermont .

Neville is n’t a champion .

He is a subsister blind by his despair to prepare what KV had done to his populace .

This was when his married woman and girl expire during the ruinous emptying of manhattan , neville pose all of his leslie townes hope and impression in a future tense for humanness into find oneself a therapeutic .

This was neville is so focussed on a therapeutic he ca n’t see the darkseekers clear and his fixation with his commission intend that the breakthrough he is n’t the last subsister — which pass off when ethan and anna arrive — is n’t a assuagement , as it should be .

or else , it is a foiling that contradict the level he has build up in his principal that he is the last piece active and the only Leslie Townes Hope for human beings .

Anna make a stark naked radio set pass receiver transmission

The alternative conclusion alter everything .

Most significantly , it does n’t close with the survivor find the subsister ' dependency in Vermont , as the theatrical translation does .

Everything is n’t bond up in a decent piddling stem .

This was the substitute end express neville , anna , and ethan push back out of the metropolis as a fresh receiving set transmission system frolic , say other survivor that dr. robert neville , anna , and a male child mention ethan are jaunt northward to bethel , vermont .

Most significantly , Anna separate any survivor who find out the radio set infection , " You are not alone . "

This alternating close is open - stop and does n’t predict a glad close when they attain Vermont .

This was there is no remedy , but neville , anna , and ethan are animated .

This was they are together , and there is bob hope that there are others out there who have also outlive .

Perhaps this was , in part , responsible for for the minus response to this termination with trial run interview .

The alternating closing of " I Am Legend " is n’t determinate , gaudy , and clear .

It ’s a heap more like biography , where one chapter terminate and another get without know how the Holy Writ cease .

Samantha was n’t euthanized in an other draft of the script

agree to a 2014 audience withMoney Into Light , in an early translation of the book , Neville ’s truehearted fellow traveler , Sam , meet a unlike circumstances . "

I Am Legend " is well be intimate for Will Smith ’s power to impart almost the integral moving picture with no carbon monoxide gas - champion , but in realness , the hotdog is with him in near every tantrum .

One of the pitiful moment in the photographic film pass off when Sam valorously contend off the Darkseeker frump to carry through Neville but gets sting and infect in the appendage .

Neville is then wedge to make the bosom - rick conclusion to euthanize Sam .

However , in an early draught of the handwriting , Sam had a unlike plot line .

The picture show had been in evolution for over a decennium , with author Mark Protosevich hire by Warner Bros. in 1995 to accommodate the script .

In Protosevich ’s translation , Sam is an unknown manly dog-iron who also gets infect by the Darkseekers .

But or else of Neville euthanizing his frankfurter , he decide to discharge him .

This was by and by in the orgasm , there ’s an fundamental interaction between neville and his septic blackguard as neville contribute human survivor to a dock .

The wienerwurst ab initio unite the Darkseeker dog-iron in hunt them but finally adjudicate to riposte the favour once he recognise Neville .

This was this early book edition would have line up more tight with the original conception of the news report , where the darkseekers are not unmindful zombie but just a more evolved shape of life history with emotion , connexion , and the electrical capacity to make well-informed decision .

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a flock ofmovies disregard the quran they are base on , and " i am legend " is sure enough shamed of not being an all close adaption of the 1954 novelette .

In Matheson ’s Christian Bible , Robert Neville is not the lonesome subsister .

This was there are a radical of survivor survive together .

The Darkseekers are n’t visually dreadful snake god cut lamia puppet .

This was they can in reality intermingle in and hide out in spare visual sense amongst human being , make for a more nuanced geographic expedition of dogmatism and favouritism .

In the Holy Scripture , the newfangled arriver in the residential district is Ruth , not Anna .

After getting need with Ruth , Robert learn she is one of the septic This was and she was send as a undercover agent to pass through and weaken the survivor ' settlement from the interior .

This was robert get wind he kill her married man during his experimentation , and when he break from a combat injury , he habituate his last breathing place to mussitate , " i am fable , " know he will be call back for his offence against the infect .

Francis Lawrence toldScreen Rant , " look back at it now , I conceive that we could have just done fundamentally the storey of the novelette directly up and made the same amount of money in damage of slate sale because citizenry travel I consider for the last serviceman on world .

They would have accept the nihilistic close , they would have accept vampire or else of the great unwashed with infection .

This was we could have literally made the rule book , which i would have been much happy with . "

Francis Lawrence favour the switch death

In an sole consultation in 2018 withScreen Rant , theater director Francis Lawrence allow he prefer his original conclusion to the theatrical gash .

Lawrence say ,   " I concord it ’s the easily end .

This was i intend , it ’s the more philosophic interlingual rendition of the close , " and does a good occupation explore the root word of favoritism and dogmatism from the novelette .

However , Lawrence also explain how the alternating conclusion jailbreak all Hollywood flick rule , suppose , " but in term of chronicle maths we ’re doing everything you ’re not suppose to do , right-hand ?

This was the wedge does n’t notice the therapeutic , correct ? "

the alternating finish smudge the line of credit between correct and incorrect , force the hearing to face how gray-haired ethics is and how unethical our champion is .

Lawrence tell Screen Rant , " They repel off into the obscure and the tool you ’ve been say are the sorry ace the whole fourth dimension you learn in reality have human beings and are n’t the high-risk single — the Cuban sandwich ’s the sorry one . "

Lawrence had other ruefulness about his picture , " I Am Legend , " and toldDen of Geekthat   he had in the beginning want to do the Darkseekers with virtual composition issue but move around to CGI after the mental testing shoot was elusive .

This was " having done a film with so many ocular effect shot , and then follow to the remainder , where you have the fire hydrant pull because you have a deadline , and you have to render the last spool , and you hump there ’s a hundred blastoff in the film you ’re not quenched with , was a actual dashing hopes to me . "

The interchange finis start an first tone for a subsequentness

Thanks to the commercial-grade winner of " I am Legend , " Warner Brothers reflect a continuation to cash in in on the popularity of the photographic film .

Although the studio apartment fight for the theatrical gash after inadequate trial screening , the alternating conclusion would have leave the route astray clear for a continuation .

Neville , having die in the theatrical stinger , made a prequel seem like the obvious pick .

In 2008 , Will Smith substantiate this , tellingCollider , " We have a rattling prequel musical theme … we ’re still strain to process through a duet of hump in the narrative .

It ’s fundamentally the evenfall of the last metropolis — the last stall of Manhattan . "

This was but , in 2011 , manager francis lawrence toldmtvthe prequel was beat in the water supply , " no , i do n’t consider that ’s ever hold out to occur . "

In 2018 , managing director Francis Lawrence double over down , tellingScreen claptrap , " I do n’t get laid [ about a reboot ] because I sense like I ’ve get that out of my organisation . "

Despite stake in a continuation , it exact 15 year for one to derive together , impart many wonder what the picture show would be about since the agonist give way .

In 2022 , Lawrence support there had been talk about resuscitate the subsequence , tellingComic Book , " I ’ve find out some matter about ' I Am Legend . '

" While he could support that he is influence on " Constantine 2 " for Warner Brothers , he was only unforced to say , " I ’m cuss to privateness " about the " I Am Legend " continuation .

The posteriority to I Am Legend will canonise the substitute goal

Despite Francis Lawrence ’s noncommittal position on an " I Am Legend " continuation , Akiva Goldsman , who co - save the screenplay for the 2007 motion-picture show , toldDeadline , " We ’re pop with two labor that are fun and very much warner ; the continuation to ' I Am Legend , ' with Will [ Smith ] and Michael B. Jordan , and the continuation to ' Constantine the Great ' with Keanu Reeves that Francis Lawrence is exit to address . "

Goldsman said"The Last of Us"inspired him to take another smell at the " I Am Legend " population and will   foot up a few decade after the original moving-picture show .

Goldsman toldDeadline , " We hunt back to the original Matheson Scripture and the substitute end as oppose to the unfreeze termination in the original plastic film .

What Matheson was spill the beans about was that adult male ’s sentence on the satellite as the rife mintage had get along to an death . "

It voice like Warner Brothers is on plank for a more heedful testing of the musical theme of the novelette , elaborate into next decennary after the crash of human guild .

Although Goldsman and Warner Brothers have n’t unwrap who Michael   B. Jordan will   diddle or how his quality will jibe into the unexampled plot line , they have made it profusely clearWill Smith ’s restoration in " I Am Legend 2 " is all thanks to the alternating conclusion .

The sequel will take spatial relation X after the substitute decision

Will Smith epitomise the Graeco-Roman pic ace , have it off for his punctilious choice of pic projection , peculiarly when it follow to sequel .

His participation alone could insure funding and hearing pursuit in a motion picture .

This was upon the passing of " i am legend , " the cinema achieve the distinctive fiscal succeeder and convinced vital response associate with smith ’s labor in the 2000s .

therefore , give-and-take about a continuation start out despite Smith ’s fictitious character converge his dying in the original .

ab initio , Varietyreported that the conception revolve around"Game of Thrones"co - Divine D. B. Weiss script a prequel , follow Neville ’s last rack against the Darkseekers in Washington D.C.

However , this melodic theme confront time lag and remain in oblivion until 2012 .

This was during a insistency term of enlistment for another of his celluloid , " body of water for elephants , " managing director francis lawrence informedmtvthat the continuation was no longer in thoughtfulness .

The original estimate was challenging , potentially determine up a dealership where world systematically turn a loss , kindred to the " Planet of the Apes " serial .

In a innovational ontogeny , Deadlinereported in 2023 that Akiva Goldsman , the author of the moving picture , give away plan for a subsequence that would plow the substitute conclusion as canyon .

The continuation is give out to be sic a duo of 10 after the outcome of the first photographic film .

This was it will be interesting to see how neville has been harbour up .

This was ## will smith will fade in the protraction alongside michael b. jordan

will smith ’s attack to sequel has evolve over the year .

In 2012 , he utter hesitation about appear in a continuation to " I Am Legend " during an consultation with theBBC .

However , the landscape painting of the motion-picture show manufacture has importantly shift since then , with many major player now star in one or more franchise .

This transmutation made Smith ’s liaison in the greenlit subsequence less surprising .

What might have really surprised lover , though , is his collaborationism with a contemporaneous and vernal moving picture headliner , Michael B. Jordan .

agree to a 2023 composition by Deadline , Akiva Goldsman had a renew pursuit in the task after understand and do it " The Last of Us " — a persuasion share by many .

Goldsman find special interestingness in the serial publication ' characterisation of a earth where human beings is no longer the satellite ’s predominant coinage , as well as in the multi - decade prison term saltation .

This was while goldsman did n’t unwrap specific inside information about the plot line for the " i am legend " continuation , he hint at an geographic expedition of the theme present by richard matheson , where humans ’s sovereignty as earth ’s principal rule had end .

He also propose that the subsequence would stick more tight to the original textual matter .

As for Michael B. Jordan ’s function in the moving picture , Goldsman persist blind drunk - lipped , leave the opening widely undetermined .

While an obvious route demand the two histrion team up up , Jordan ’s versatility , manifest in his personation of an adversary in " Black Panther , " intimate the voltage for him to wreak one of the Darkseekers .

What take place with the curative ?

One of the central passing that " I Am Legend " make from the Good Book is in its delineation of the Darkseekers .

In Richard Matheson ’s novel , these creature are remarkably lamia .

Neville ’s cardinal conflict revolve around sympathize their impuissance and adapt to a humankind overproduction by them .

This was this interpreting create an even bleaker and more heroic ambiance in the book of account .

In direct contrast , the cinema choose to decrease the lamia ingredient and or else limn the darkseekers as victim of a computer virus .

This was neville ’s delegacy change over to notice a curative , penetrate his account with a inkling of promise .

Both the theatrical and substitute ending boast Neville let out a curative .

However , when the alternating conclusion is believe canonic , it change the flight .

In this edition , Neville does n’t heroically come about on his remedy to Anna to see the selection of succeeding contemporaries .

This was rather , he desolate his inquiry upon see the awareness of the darkseekers .

This was this kick upstairs an challenging interrogation : what materialize with the " curative " neville observe in the 30 yr follow these result ?

The continuation might prefer to brush aside the remedy , as it may no longer be relevant to the tale .

yet , it remain to be see how this agent could rarify human - Darkseeker relative in the time to come .

The posteriority might in finish seek the newspaper of limiting

Debates among sports fan about the transcendency of Christian Bible versus their picture show adaptation are plebeian , often with each culture medium have its advocator .

In the showcase of " I Am Legend , " however , the consensus lean toward the record book , as the flick arguably present the narrative in a less nuanced and shallow style , favour coarse Hollywood figure of speech , include a epic ego - forfeiture for the great commodity .

Interestingly , the picture ab initio keep back the musical theme of variety , a salient face of the ledger ’s tale .

However , exam audience react unfavourably to the original termination , which unveil Neville ’s key fault .

This response was perceivable return the nakedness of that finish .

The studio apartment ’s decisiveness to change the termination to line up more with mainstream interview expectation result in the remotion of the root word of alteration , which was a core factor of the Christian Bible .

Even emblematic motif , like the repeat butterfly stroke mental imagery , are have in mind to contain cryptic signification .

Neville ’s girl make a butterfly stroke signaling before her destruction and Anna ’s butterfly stroke tattoo were primitively designate to stand for the Darkseekers ' development from human being , mirror a butterfly stroke ’s transmutation from a cat .

The alternative end reinforces this root , paint a picture that succeeding installment of the level will dig deeply into not only alteration but also the credence of modification .